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Task: Limits on Curtilage
Collins v. Virginia, 138 S. Ct. 1663 (2018).
• The Automobile Exception does not permit the Warrantless Entry of
a Home or its curtilage in order to search a vehicle therein
• Curtilage: “the area immediately surrounding and associated with
the home—[is considered] to be part of the home itself for Fourth
Amendment purposes…The protection afforded the curtilage is
essentially a protections of families and personal privacy in an area
intimately linked to the home, both physically and psychologically
where privacy expectations are most heightened.”
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